Thu 1 Oct 2009
Coye and I have had our short paper accepted to CSCW 2010, and nominated for best note award, which is exciting:
Antin, J., and C. Cheshire. 2010. “Readers are not Free-Riders: Reading as a Form of Participation on Wikipedia.” in Proceedings of the ACM 2009 conference on Computer supported cooperative work. Savannah, GA. (PDF)
You can check out the full advance program too. Looks like lots of fantastic papers in there!
[...] be at CSCW in Savannah in a couple of weeks to present a paper I wrote with Coye entitled: Readers are Not Free-Riders: Reading as a Form of Participation on Wikipedia Anyway, in preparation for the "Madness" session, and because I had some creative juices [...]
Just saw a #cscw2010 tweet about this paper. I'm not at the conference but have downloaded it and really like what I've skimmed so far. I'm always drawn to work that challenges long-held beliefs and conventional wisdom … especially when it shines a positive light on a previously scorned behavior.
I know that space for references is limited in a Note, but you may be interested in some related work I recently encountered on danah boyd's Research on Twitter and Microblogging page:
Crawford, Kate. (2009). Following you: Disciplines of listening in social media. Journal of Media & Culture Studies,23 (4),525-535.